Evening and morning and at noon, I will complain and moan, and He will hear my voice. Psalm 55:17 NASB Evening and morning and at noon – I have always wondered why Judaism calls for prayers three times a day and Islam calls for prayers five times a day. Here is the justification for the Jewish sequence: Abraham initiated…
Give us this day [a]our daily bread. Matthew 6:11 NASB Daily bread – What does Yeshua imply in this difficult expression? Oh, wait. Did you think this verse was “difficult”? Probably not. It’s been an accepted part of the Lord’s Prayer for so long that we don’t even recognize that scholars have puzzled over this particular…
“Give us this day our daily bread.” Matthew 6:11 NASB Daily – The Greek word epiousion is one of the most unusual words in the entire Bible. It occurs only in the Lord’s Prayer. In order to understand the meaning of most Biblical expressions, scholars often look to other uses either in the Bible or…
“Give us this day our daily bread.” Matthew 6:11 NASB Daily – The Greek word epiousion is one of the most unusual words in the entire Bible. It occurs only in the Lord’s Prayer. In order to understand the meaning of most Biblical expressions, scholars often look to other uses either in the Bible or…
“Our bread, our daily bread, give us today.” Martin Luther’s translation of Matthew 6:11 Daily – I am indebted to Ernst Lohmeyer for his magnificent work The Lord’s Prayer. Much of his thought underscores our look at this model prayer. His untimely death robbed the world of a man of insight and scholarship. The book,…
Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:11 Shifting Gears Bread – You can’t see it in English, but in Greek the emphasis on this part of the model prayer is not on the verb. It is on the noun – bread. In Greek, emphasis is determined by position in the sentence since there…
